The playwright characterises Juror Ten to display a racial form of prejudice and how it affects our judgment. Prior to deliberations Juror Ten immediately establishes a guilty mindset against the boy, based on the boy being a minority. “Knowing what he is”, Juror Ten repeatedly refers to the boy as ‘them’. Because he has “lived among ‘em all [his] life” and does not “believe a word they say”, Juror Ten enters the jury room with a foregoing hatred for the boy’s race. Through the entire script Juror Ten only addresses the boy as them, ‘em, they, a lulu and intentionally targets his ethnic group. From the beginning Juror Ten votes ‘guilty’ and stands with his ignorant decision but as other jurors begin changing to ‘not guilty’ his racial prejudice
